Liz Murphy

ColumnistNaptown PintWriter

Liz Murphy lives in Annapolis with her husband, Patrick, and their two lazy dogs, Horatio and Nugget. Liz also runs her own Annapolis-based beer blog, Naptown Pint. You can usually find her kicking back a pint (or four) at 1747 Pub off Church Circle. Or you can just set a scotch ale out on your porch, and she'll be there in five minutes. You can reach her at liz@naptownpint.com.

Recent Articles

Can we all agree that everything is better in the fall? If you don’t agree, please just to lie to me — for the purposes of today’s column and our friendship. When that trademark chill appears in the air, signaling the arrival of crisp autumn weather, I emerge from my Grumpy Cat-like fog with a...

With a master’s degree from the University of Virginia in theater, Hugh Sisson had no intention of going into the beer business. But fate, in the form of his father convincing him to tend bar at Sisson’s Pub in Federal Hill many moons ago, had different plans. Over the course of 30-plus years in...

Patrick and I moved to Annapolis four years ago. And while I'd love to say that I fell madly in love with the Maryland beer scene as soon as my turtle-like Prius crossed over the state line on moving day, that wasn't the case. It happened later that year, on a hot Saturday in September at Navy-Marine...

After months of unladylike sweating and sunburns, September finally arrives Friday, and my long-awaited countdown to fall has begun. In addition to my unabashed unpacking of sweaters and declarations of telling summer to hit the road, it’s around this time that you'll also start hearing the audible...

Flanked by pallets, kegs and towering, shiny stainless steel tanks, Jim Sharp walked me through the Evolution Craft Brewing Co. brewhouse located in Salisbury on the road to Ocean City. Sharp is one of three head brewers. “Mike, he’s an analytical guy,” he said as we make our way through the equipment....

Recently, I participated in a beer and media panel at Atlas Brew Works in Washington, D.C. The brewery is a stone's throw from the Maryland border, but the energy around craft breweries and how they are embraced as part of the community — by legislators and consumers alike — always feels like culture...

It's a great area, but no matter how many times I drive in and around downtown Silver Spring, I find myself muttering compulsively, "Hail, Caesar. Those of us who are about to die salute you." Driving in that area feels like nothing short of an exercise in utter terror, as a I bob and weave, hurling...

My mother's side of the family were a bunch of rowdy, first-generation Italian Americans hailing from Washington, D.C. They were the sons and daughters of Alfonso the barber and his wife, Aida, and they were larger than life. This was especially true of my grandfather Vito's four sisters, Philomena,...